A $500M Anti-Respiratory-Virus Project

Treating colds and flu as solvable problems reframes respiratory infection as infrastructure, not nuisance

A+ philanthropy from Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gates, Jane Street. $500M toward making everyone less sick. We treat illnesses like they are inevitable, but they’re not. Colds, flu, RSV, COVID, etc. cost the world hundreds of billions and

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